Harry Douglass

Harry Douglass, Baron Douglass of Cleveland (1 January 1902 – 5 April 1978) was a British trade unionist.

Born in Middlesbrough, England, Douglass entered work at the age of 13, becoming a steel melter. He immediately joined the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, and became a member of its executive council in 1933. Two years later, he was appointed as a full-time organiser for the union, then rose to become Assistant General Secretary in 1945 and finally General Secretary in 1953,^[1] serving until 1967. He was also President of the International Metal Workers' Federation.^[2]

Douglass also chaired the British Productivity Council,^[1] and served as the President of the Trades Union Congress in 1967.^[3] On retirement he was created a life peer on 22 September 1967, taking the title Baron Douglass of Cleveland, of Cleveland in the County of York.^[4]^[5]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Sir Harry Douglass, "Manpower Utilisation", British Automation Conference 1965, Discussion Group A2
^ ^a ^b Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Vol.146 (1978), p.92
^ Details of Past Congresses Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Trades Union Congress
^ "No. 44414". The London Gazette. 22 September 1967. p. 10345.
^ "Life Peerages". Archived from the original on 16 April 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

Trade union offices
Preceded by Lincoln Evans	Assistant General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation 1945-53	Succeeded by Dai Davies
Preceded by Lincoln Evans	General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation 1953-67	Succeeded by Dai Davies
Preceded by Lincoln Evans and Jack Owen	Iron, Steel and Minor Metal Trades representative on the General Council of the TUC 1953 – 1967 With: Joseph O'Hagan (1953–1966)	Succeeded by Dai Davies
Preceded by Claude Bartlett and Bill Webber	Trades Union Congress representative to the AFL-CIO 1963 With: Anne Godwin	Succeeded by William Carron and George Lowthian
Preceded by Joseph O'Hagan	President of the Trades Union Congress 1967	Succeeded by Lewis Wright

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[biog-1] Sir Harry Douglass, "Manpower Utilisation", British Automation Conference 1965, Discussion Group A2

[dod-2] Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Vol.146 (1978), p.92

[3] Details of Past Congresses Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Trades Union Congress

[4] "No. 44414". The London Gazette. 22 September 1967. p. 10345.

[5] "Life Peerages". Archived from the original on 16 April 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

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